Dear 2015

[Subedai]

Just take it a day at a time and it'll get sorted.

Hint: Choose an order that wears brown robes then the fallen bits of Flake won't show.

Chocolate, although I am partial wouldn't be worth a Lent type give-up for me. Now if you start talking about giving up drinking tea, then that's a definite non starter!

[paulr]

It's been surprisingly easy so far. Think it's just a question of changing habits.

It is indeed about changing habits. I changed some of mine after a warning about blood pressure in November and the results have been very positive

Hope the thumb gets better soon and remember Pendraken has some new Centurions planned

[Fenton]

I got sent home from the Doctors with one of those home Blood pressure monitors and had to use it three times a day for 2 weeks  as the Dr thought it was a little high when I went to see him

The result was that it was completely normal

[Maenoferren]

Cheer up FSN, think happy thoughts...

Wow that's a nice T34
On a more serious note....I hope 2015 improves.

[Steve J]

I really only eat Green & Blacks 85% chocolate these days. Some reports say it's good for you in the same way as wine, others that dark chocolate is bad for you .

[fsn]

It's funny when you give up chocolate you realise how much of it there is out there.

[Leman]

We're all going to die - why live miserably.

[Westmarcher]

It's funny when you give up chocolate you realise how much of it there is out there.

..... and that would be because .... you've given it up? 

Chocolate is bad for (old) dogs anyway.

[when I'm sober tomorrow I might regret this]

[FierceKitty]

I hate to say it, but I really enjoy chocolate less than I did twenty years ago (never mind the "road to Damascus" moment that was my first encounter with Belgian pralines in my teens, when I knew eating these was what I was born to do). I could give it up with only mild sorrow these days.

[Steve J]

I hate to say it, but I really enjoy chocolate less than I did twenty years ago

Agreed. Long gone are the days when I'd polish off a whole Cadbury Dairy Milk bar in one go.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

We have a bespoke chocolatier in town. Yum. Special treat choccy.

Otherwise, I'm a teacher, chocolate flows through my veins and clogs my arteries! 

[fsn]

Can't say I'm a fan of "fancy" chocolate. A friend of mine used to send me specialty choccies which usually had a sting in the tail like salt or chili.

Can't beat your Diary Milk or a Yorkie Bar.

"I've pounded the road, from coast to coast,
Yorkie and me trucking on,
for a long day's run
can be short on fun,
without Yorkie to help me along."

[Bodvoc]

I'm a Cadbury's fruit and nut case!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'm a Cadbury's fruit and nut case!

Preferably the plain chocolate type we used to get in 24hr rat packs.

IanS

[Leman]

When I can get it I like 90%  chocolate, and I'm also very fond of the chilli chocolate sold by Aldi. I find milk chocolate far too sweet and cloying.

[Westmarcher]

On the plus side, my plan for a chocolate free January is going well. If it goes really well, I'm hoping for a chocolate free February,

Why is it again that are you giving up chocolate? Was it doctor's orders? Did you get The Bourneville Ultimatum?

[See! See what happens when I'm sober?  Is chocolate good for a sore head .......?  ]

[Leman]

Techno!!!!   

[fsn]

This is my 3,000th post, so hopefully I'm going to get promoted. Will this result in a pay rise and an increased elephant? No? Well, hobble on then. Is it the 7 virgins, or at least the key to the executive loo. On second thoughts, at my age, perhaps a locked bathroom could lead to unfortunate accidents. As for the seven virgins, as long as they don't talk whist "Only Connect" is on, they can bunk down in the spare room. I've got to that stage of life when I see young girls and just want to protect them.

Anyway, I won't let this exulted new rank change me, apart from the extra gold braid on my pyjamas. I promise to remain the sensible, level headed leader and shaper of the zeitgeist.

[Techno]

Congratulations, Nobby !!
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Nice one FSN.